34 on the other side of the pier, and both tugs also boasted a number of IndIan and Japanese ladies in saris and kimonos. Bars had been set up and staffed by Day-Dean's waiters, and as the Barbara made for the Battery we hoisted a gin- and-tonic with Mr. Profit, who was wearIng a friendl} checked suit "Hindu girls are beautIful between fifteen and eighteen; then they tend to go off," he said. "They mature very early, owing to climaric conditions." "Have you ever tried The Coach House, on ,^T averly Place?" Mr. Kerr asked. "A very good restaurant" We noted not only the Nancy but two other Moran tugs in our wake, and a shipboard acquaIntance, Rob- ert F. Reiser, who is manager of harbor sales for the Moran TowIng & Trans- portation Cü., explained that we were part of an International Tugboat Cara- van and that any minute we would be saluted by a New York City fireboat and d polIce helicopter. Sure enough, We were, as, round- ing the tip of the island, we en tered the North RIver. The fireboat emitted five enor- mous geysers in stead) streams, and the helicopter kept circling us until we had skIrted the Holland- .Ltlmerica Line's new pier, still a-build- ing, at the foot of vVest Houston Street, and crossed the Hudson to Hoboken. There We tied up under the prow of the Rotterdam, a gleaming gray-and- white flagship with unobtrusive fun- nels that looked to us like black silk hats. ".Ltl great piece of seamanship! A great pIece of showmanship!" Mr. Profit said. "Would you conCUI in that? " We concurred, and as the barmen began to pack their glasses in a box, we accompanIed Mr. Profit and the others to the Ritz Carlton Room of the Rotter- dam, where the international buffet in- spired us to gluttony and global good will. "What a beautiful Galantine of Chicken! Look at that Chaud-Froid of Capon!" Mr. Kerr saId, and we ought a word with one of a dozen circling chefs. He said that he belonged to a complement of sixty-eight Rotterdam cooks, and that the day's luncheon menu-more than thirty items-was a typical one. Having sampled a spread ranging, geographically, from Paella Valenciana to Long Island Duckling, we were guided by Mr. ReIser to the side of F red- erick R. Wierdsma, resident director and general manager of the Holland- America Line for North America, and John S. Bull, a Moran vice-president. '1 ""'IL "My grandfather joined the line in 1881," Mr. Wierdsma said. "OUf new pier win be the biggest privately operat- ed, exclusively occupied one in the world. " "The Barbara and the Nancy dre two of our biggest tugs," said Mr. Bull. "A hundred and six feet long. Seven- teen hundred and fifty horsepower. Next year, we'll be getting three tugs twice as big, with thirty-five hundred horsepower. Instead of using six to bring in a large liner, we'll do it witÌJ three. This is the way we're fighting inflation." " 1 ' d 11 " m not ure you nee tugs at a , Mr. W. said. "You don't necessarily need any going out, and in slack water you don't need any coming in." "Slack water only lasts an hour," Mr. B. said, "and you'd generally hav to wait several hours for it. Time is " money. \1indful of the fact that Holland- America has seven passenger liners, we asked Mr. Wierdsmd what his favorite ShIP was "I usually have to fly when I travel," he said. It wasn't until we were back home, surrounded by house, or ship, literature pressed on us as we left the Rotterdam, that we dis- covered what her good-will tour was: an eighty-day cruise ledving New York next January, twenty-one ports of call, $18,180 for two global friends in the very best sUIte, with local tours-such as a pedicab excursion in Formosa- eÀtra. - ,r c:,.ç.J . I NCIDENTAL INTELLIGENCE: A 1961 college textbook called "Funda- mental Physics" and published by John Wiley & Sons contains a chapter on gravitation, and the first illustration In that chapter is a photograph of Marilyn Monroe leaping in to the air. B,irdland S EVERAL famIlies of pigeons that have for many years been residents of the upper stories of the Jefferson Market Courthouse, down at Tenth Street and Sixth A venue, in Greenwich Village, are due to be dispossessed if the place, unoccupied by anything unfeath- ered since 1958, is converted into a library, as Ylayor \Vagner is recom- mending. Before the pigeons took over, Jefferson Market, a str dnge confection stirred up in 1876 by Frederick Clark \Vithers and Calvert Vaux, two of the leading architects of the perIod, who swore it was Venetian Gothic, had served as a women's court, a civil- SEPTEMDER 'b. '9 b 1 defense headquarters, a temporary perch for the Health Insurance Plan of Great- er New York, an adjunct of the Police Department Academy, and, finally, a storeroom for the Department of Cor- rection. During the prohibition era, Jefferson Market was a scandalous place, crowded witÌJ bail bondsmen tumbling aU over themselves to ante up for the release of gangsters' cuties, and witÌJ stylish spectators, who would roll in after a night in the speakeasies to see the girls jugged or sprung. La- Guardia put an end to this nonsense, and the old courthouse, which by that time was cheek by jowl with the House of Detention for Women, built in 1932, began to go downhill as a public attrac- tion. The other day, we learned that Ferdinand Roth, Commissioner of the Department of Real Estate, and i\lex- ander Feinberg, the Department's dI- rector of public relations, were going to tour the building, and we arranged to join them. While we were awaiting their arrival, we read a plaque that advised us to pay close attention to J ef- ferson Market's turrets, traceried win- dows, ironwork, and sculpture. We did as we were bidden, and it struck us that in its general configuration the estab- lishmen t looked like an elegant kiln-a great brick tower, which could be a chimney, on the uptown side, with a fanc) bunch of turrets depending from it to the south. vVhen Mr. Roth and Mr. Feinberg came along, the latter immediately in- formed us that the Department of Real Estate is both the custodian of city prop- erty and the agent charged with dispos- ing of it when it is no longer wan ted, and that only after any given property has been released by all other city agencies can it be put up for public auc- tion. "This courthouse and the House of Detention could have made a won- derful parcel," said Mr. Roth, "but the local people dIdn't want the city to sell, and the Public Library people said that they wanted the courthouse as a re- placement for the Jackson Branch, a couple of blocks west, and So we haven't made any moves. As it stands, the May- or plans to ask for four hundred and fourteen thousand dollars in his 1962 capital budget for the converSIon of Jefferson Market into a library." At that moment, several men in blue denim, whom Mr. Roth identified as Correction Depdrtmen t prisoners, came pouring out of Jefferson Market wIth filing cabinets and cartons. \Ve looked inquiringly at a police- man who seemed to be supervising the job, and he said, "We got a forthwIth order at noon to get all our gear out